(Scroll down for video) A woman in Tennessee, is no longer sleeping in her bed after a snake woke her up by tickling her arm.

Christine Humphries of White Bluff, said that after she fell asleep on her couch Friday night, she got up and went to bed.

Suddenly, she felt something tickling her arm. At first, she thought it was her cat, but when the tickling continued, she grabbed a flashlight and turned it on.

She was then horrified to see a long snake in bed with her. She quickly jumped out of bed and called the police. Police officers who arrived at the scene, captured the snake and released it back into the wild.

Police identified the reptile as a 3-foot eastern rat snake. Since then, Humphries is afraid to sleep in her bed. She suspects that the snake came into her home through the flood drain in her basement.